Chicago LEADNorthwestern's McCormick School of Engineering recently profiled Shreyas Lele, a Chicago LEAD program alumnus whose work now sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, product management, and cloud security.
Lele is an AI product manager at Palo Alto Networks, where he leads a portfolio of generative AI, classical machine learning, and agentic features for Prisma Cloud. His work focuses on applying AI to detect threats, shape mitigation plans, and help protect customers' cloud environments.
Hands-on, problem-first work
In the profile, Lele emphasizes that learning AI is about more than completing courses. He points to collaboration, practical experience, and understanding when a problem actually calls for AI. That problem-first mindset is central to the kind of work program alumni take with them beyond the cohort.
The Northwestern profile also describes how Lele combined the technical foundation of the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence program with product management study through Kellogg. His path is a useful reminder that AI careers can extend well beyond a single job title or technical specialty.